Abstract
The aim of this paper is to provide the review of recently tested interventions that seek to change beliefs, attitudes and behaviors related to global climate change (GCC). The two major approaches, information-based interventions and framing interventions, are presented and discussed. Information-based interventions differ in the underlying models of attitude change, and also in the types of information they use to drive the attitude and behavior change. Interventions focusing on the communication of scientific consensus about the GCC and interventions providing information about the mechanism of GCC are capable to positively influence attitudes to GCC without having polarization effect. Framing interventions emphasize certain dimensions of an issue so that they interact with pre-existing schemata, values, and mental models, which people hold. Gain frames describing the gains that will occur from GCC mitigation are capable to increase concern about GCC as well as positive attitudes towards GCC mitigation.
Highlights
This paper reviews two approaches which may be useful in climatic campaigns: the provision of information and framing of information about aspects of global climate change
We focus on information provision and framing because such approaches can be implemented in climatic campaigns targeting the general public
After reviewing approaches that are based on information provision, we turn to another important group of interventions which can be used in public climatic campaigns and which can be generally denoted as framing approaches
Summary
We started the literature search using the Scopus database (https://www.scopus.com) and a logical search expression, which restricted our search to published experimental research targeting mitigation or adaptation behaviours with specific focus on information-based and framing-based interventions. After screening the list of 430 articles provided by Scopus search engine, we selected 51 research papers which reported the results of experimental research focusing on information-based and framing-based interventions. Another 39 papers were identified through backward search in reference lists of papers and by forward search in the list of papers that quoted them (details of the literature can be found here: https://osf.io/7f8k3). We generally provide illustrative examples to back our claims concerning the effects of various interventions. Where such evidence was available in the existing studies, we compare effects of specific interventions. We do not systematically quantify and compare effect sizes of various interventions as such undertaking would require a meta-analytical approach
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